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The Gothic Imagination is based at the University of Stirling, Scotland and provides an interdisciplinary forum for lively discussion and critical debate concerning all manifestations of the Gothic mode. Queries to Dr Timothy Jones on timothy.jones@stir.ac.uk.

2007 October

The third film version of Richard Matheson’s 1954 novella I Am Legend is due for release in December and I, for one, am looking forward to it. I remain intrigued by how vampirism and the trope of disease are re-worked in different periods, and after 63 years, Francis Lawrence’s vision will undoubtedly provide further insight into how American culture manages its home-grown ‘others’.
Interestingly, the first two film adaptations are ideologically opposed. Sidney Salkow’s The Last Man on Earth (1964), starring Vincent Price, is closest to depicting the mora

Professor Byron gives an insight into the literary history of the female vampire for BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour. The Woman's Hour website has the following synopsis:
The women vampires who have long featured in the gothic imagination
Hammer’s classic, early colour film Dracula is returning to cinema screens in a newly restored version. Alongside the cloaked figure of Christopher Lee’s Dracula, the camera lingers on his female counterparts - the Brides of Dracula, and the victims of his bite who join them. But, female vampires stalked the Eart

About

The Gothic Imagination is based at the University of Stirling, Scotland and provides an interdisciplinary forum for lively discussion and critical debate concerning all manifestations of the Gothic mode. Queries to glennis.byron@stir.ac.uk or dale.townshend@stir.ac.uk